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Stanley Bobrowski, Jr.
Son of a Russian Officer
by Larry A. Williams
of action quickly and deliver mass
fire in a very short time period.
The mortar proved so successful
that it was mounted on boats to
cover beach assaults in the Pacific.
Bobrowski was a college student
when he enlisted. He noted
that “everybody went in (the
service), so I did too.” His major
on a Math scholarship, Stanley in Chemical Engineering tied in
enlisted in the Army on March well with the Chemical Weapons
3, 1943. Right after enlistment Service during WWII. After
and before basic training, he was more training, Stanley’s unit was
assigned to further education sent to Northern California for
studies in Chemical Engineering more training and then to a camp
at the University of Pennsylvania.
tanley J. Bobrowski, Jr. Having been a former high school north of New Orleans. The unit
of Lubbock, Texas didn’t track star, during his time at boarded a troop train at Camp
Shave the typical family Penn, he was recruited to run in Shelby, Mississippi and headed
upbringing that most South Plains the prestigious Penn Relays. He for Camp Miles Standish near
WWII veterans had. His father, placed 2nd in the 220 and was Boston, Massachusetts. The
Stanley Bobrowski, was born part of the winning relay team. battalion left Boston Harbor on
in Russia in 1881. He served in January 18, 1945 on board the
the Russian Cavalry and came His basic training took place at Santa Maria. They were escorted
to the United States in 1906. His Camp Sibert in Alabama. (The by an English battleship and DE
father, who worked in a steel camp was named after Major (destroyer) boats. En route to La
mill, was active in the Holy General William L. Sibert, a native Havre, France, the convoy was
Rosary Church in North Chicago of nearby Gadsden, Alabama. attacked by German U boats.
and was the bell ringer for the A veteran of WWI, Sibert was Once in La Havre, the battalion
church until his death in 1960. the first Chief of the Chemical departed for Camp Lucky Strike
Stanley Jr., one of eight children, Warfare Service.) Stanley was in France. The 93rd joined up
was born on January 27, 1923 assigned to the newly activated with the Fifteenth Army and
in North Chicago. His mother, 93rd Chemical Mortar Battalion, headed to Germany with its
Anna, was a housewife. Four of Company C. The Battalion was newly motorized equipment.
the boys served in the military equipped with 4.2-inch mortars. Attached to the 87th Infantry
during WWII. Stanley joked It was a multi-purpose weapon Division, and after crossing
that, between them, they “served employed in close support of the Rhine at Trier, France into
in almost every branch of the combat ground troops. It had Germany, Company C of the
service.” the ability to fire toxic agents, 93rd went through the towns
smoke and high explosives. The of Oberporlitz and Saalfeld,
Though he had already begun Chemical Warfare Service saw the supported an attack on Schleiz
studies at Purdue University mortar as with fire and destroyed buildings
a mobile in Theuma. Enemy positions
and were destroyed by the 93rd east
This article (from 2018) is the fifth of ten flexible of Theuma. Their last mission
articles we are reprinting to celebrate Senior weapon was firing on enemy positions
at Stockigt. On April 20, 1945,
Link's decade of honoring area veterans. that could Company C was relieved from the
be placed
in and out field.
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